This is a reprint of our review from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Actor and writer Jason Lew, the screenwriter behind Gus Van Sant‘s “Restless,” makes his feature directorial debut with “The Free World,” a sometimes-curious picture that takes on a big story with an intimate execution. “Curious” only because “The Free World” ends up in a place vastly different from where it starts, genre-hopping and taking unexpected turns.

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Letting go of a troubled past is no easy thing, and sometimes in facing the future, you can’t shake the habits and behavior that have shaped your life. These ideas come into play in Jason Lew‘s feature directorial debut “The Free World.”

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Starring Boyd Holbrook, Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer and Sung Kang, the story follows an ex-con trying to go straight after serving time for a crime he didn’t commit.

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Elisabeth Moss has spent the last few years going entirely from strength to strength. Still only 34, the actress first popped up on our screens nearly twenty years ago in “The West Wing.” And since then, she’s popped up all over the place, most famously as a multiple Emmy nominee for playing Peggy Olson on “Mad Men,” but also in Jane Campion’s wonderful “Top Of The Lake,” and films like “Listen Up Philip,” “The One I Love,” “Queen Of Earth” and “High-Rise.”

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Moss is currently filming a second run of “Top Of The Lake” with Campion, but the next chance you’ll have to see her is in “The Free World,” a Sundance drama in which she stars alongside “Narcos” actor Boyd Holbrook.

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Sundance Review: 'The Free World' Starring Boyd Holbrook, Elisabeth Moss & Octavia Spencer

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